I am going through my books and am going to a used book store soon to get books to add to boxes.

I was wondering, are there certain types I can't send?  I love to read paranormal romance so I was going to send some of them, a couple that are the whole series.  Some, however, are very erotic.  Would that be allowed, or should I look for something tamer?  Some are humorus, some strickly romance but all of them have sexy guys and gals as hero/heriones.  I am also going to pick up murder mysteries, thrillers, humor and westerns. 

If I am allowed to send the ones that sizzle, I have a series by C. Feehan, Ghostwalkers.  It deals with military guys who volunteer for what they thought as a special type of training, they have some form of psychic abilities (it is a book, fiction).  But of course he is a "mad scientist" and does a lot of genetic manipulation with the guys.  They escape, but due to their patriotism they are an elite group who use their abilities to help (such as rescue pow's).  Although they use them in the states a lot to help people.  And of course there are bad guys after them.  You can check them out at Amazon.com under Christine Feehan's name, She uses the word Game in all of the books of this series (Shadow Game and Mind Game are a couple of them).  Would that one be okay to send? I have several series, from 4 to 6 book in each series that I can send, along with other non-pnr.

I know we can't send mags that are naughty, LOL, such as Playboy; so now I am wondering, are these books also not allowed?

Janette

It's great that you want to send books.  They will be greatly appreciated.  In my understanding/experience with other organizations, AS contacts, and deployed friends there is an over-abundance of romance novels of all types sent to troops and they are the least desired.  I wouldn't send ANY based on the feedback and I think it's best to avoid any thing that's erotic in nature for various reasons.  They much prefer other types of books.  (However, if a contact requests a specific genre, such as romance, then by all means, I would send what they ask for.)  One thing I was told as a friendly head's up  is that some covers of sci-fi and romance paperbacks are very suggestive and should not be sent for that reason alone. 

If you're looking for books, I've heard several people have had a great deal of luck getting deals at stores like Half Price Books or even at garage sales when they let them know the books are for the troops.  It never hurts to ask ;)  And don't forget, if you are sending a box of just books, the media mail rate is much cheaper than the priority and usually doesn't take that much longer!